Ashish joined First Advantage Pvt. Ltd. as Group Chief Operating Officer for the APAC region in November 2005 and was elevated to the role of Managing Director (West Asia) in July 2006.

In a career spanning over 15 years, Ashish, a management graduate from Somaiya Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, has worked in various capacities in Sales/Marketing, Strategic Planning and Operations in the Manufacturing, ITeS and Service industries.

Before he joined First Advantage, Ashish was Director – Operations at Accenture; he was a part of the team that worked on making Accenture the first contact center in the world to be COPC 3.4 Gold certified.

Ashish was one of the initial management team members of one of India’s first third party BPOs - TransWorks Information Services Pvt. Ltd., now an Aditya Birla Group company. He played a key leadership role, as the Vice President of Operations, in making TransWorks the first contact center in the world to get COPC 3.2 and 3.3 certifications.

Ashish started his career with Ceat Ltd., the flagship of the RPG group. He progressively rose up the ranks to become one of Indian tyre industry’s then youngest Regional Managers. During his stint with Ceat, he played a significant role in re-structuring Sales, Collections and Logistics processes by being a part of the Strategic Planning function. He was a part of the team at Ceat that spear-headed the move from the traditional wholesale method of tyre-selling to retailing – a concept much ahead of its time then!

Under his leadership, First Advantage has strengthened its position as the undisputed leaders in the Background Screening arena and has been awarded the following accolades:

- Listed in the top 100 IT Innovators for 2007 by Nasscom
- Listed in the top three organizations in India for Gender Inclusivity by Nasscom
- HRD Congress Award for ‘Organization with Innovative HR practices’

Ashish was a regular guest faculty at IIT Mumbai’s Management School about 5 years back.

Pradeep V Bahirwani is Vice President in the Talent Acquisition Function in Wipro Technologies.

He brings with him a rich 18 years of business experience, of which fifteen years have been spent over two innings at Wipro. He has a wide-ranging experience in field engineering, sales & marketing, product management, procurement solutions and recruitment. As Product Manager in Wipro, he has successfully launched and grew the Wipro server line of business. Prior to this recent innings with Wipro, he had worked with Ramco Systems and also handled an international assignment in Muscat.

Pradeep holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. He also has a CPM (Certified in Purchasing Management) certification awarded by the US based National Association of Purchasing Management, and a CPIM certification (certified in Production and Inventory Management) awarded by APICS, the US based educational society for resource management.

Satish Doshi, MD & CIO, Sampoorna Consultants Pvt Ltd is a BE(Hons) & M.M.S. - Rank Holder from BITS, PILANI. Also Rank holder in the High School Board exam – 1st in Bhopal, 8th in M.P.

He has been in the IT & Executive Recruitment Industry for more than 30 years in diverse functional / business areas including Top Management Search, Selection of IT professionals, Software Exports, Education & Training, Systems and Programming, R & D, Franchising, Profit Centre Head, Industry Account Management, Data Centre Operations, Marketing and Management Consultancy.

Honoured by CSI as Fellow in 2002 and held various positions at a National level(www.csi-india.org)

Founder Chairman, Executive Recruiters Association (www.era.org.in)